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When Mr. Bennet spoke that line, he was talk- ing about his own daughters—but with loving warmth as well as ironic observation.
Amusingly wicked comments like this, always keen-sighted and made with affection rather than bitterness, are the keynote of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. It was written by Jane Austen when she was only twenty years old. In addition to being so young for a novelist, she lived in a little country town in England and never saw a great deal of the world. But what she knew she knew well indeed, and this was the mahners and motives for her own kind of people. The simple story of an English family with five daughters to marry off, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE never strays very far from its country-house scene and presents no epic adventures, but it has a definite story to tell about people and tells it in such a lively, humorous way that it remains as fresh and appealing today as when it was first written.
Jane Austen, daughter of a clergyman, was born in Steventon, England, in 1775. She died in 1817.
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Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
Mr. Bennet, owner of the Longbourn estate in Hertfordshire, has five daughters, but his property is entailed and can only be passed to a male heir. His wife also lacks an inheritance, so his family faces becoming very poor upon his death. Thus, it is imperative that at least one of the girls marry well to support the others, which is a motivation that drives the plot.
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